Deodorizer



A i-il 11', 1950 D, OS F 2,503,331

DEODORIZER Y Filed Aug. 14, 1947 Inventor Drag/e P. Gas/Jeff Patented Apr. 11, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DEODORIZER Dragie P. Gosheif, Tampa, Fla. Application August 1'4, 1947, SerialNo. 768,602

3 Claims. 1

The present invention relates to air deodoriz-' ing, purifying and scenting wick equipped bot-' tles, such as Air Wick and the like which are expressly, but not necessarily, adapted to be used in kitchens, bathrooms, cellars, closets and the like to modify offensive odors.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the practice of purifying and part-conditioning the air of rooms by a method of evaporating chlorophyll or an equivalent liquid deodorant into a room space is becoming quite popular, and a number of varying devices are available at the corner store and elsewhere for home use. The devices with which I am familiar are more-or-less makeshift, and embody a bottle or other container and often impractical screw-cap closure and a wire frame which does not satisfactorily support the essentially usable wick. Experience has shown such devices to be quite messy, in that through capillary attraction caused by the use of the wick,

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the cap per se. Figure 3 is a perspective View of the wick adapter or holder per se, with the wick removed.

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Figure 1,"

, and this opening is surrounded by a bevelled if the wick is pulled out too far, fluid drops on the furniture, on shelves or elsewhere. In situations where the wick is not pulled out far enough to lean to the desired degree, it will often slide back into the container only to cause the user to give up in despair, in attempting to satisfactorily utilize the device. One construction known to me, provides for pinching the wick to prevent slipping back into the container, and this requires the wick being smoothed out when it is desired to lower it into and close the bottle.

It is a purpose and object of the instant invention to provide a unique and practical construction possessed of a number of features and improvements of a refined degree. Briefly, a preferred embodiment of the invention is characterized by a wick adaptor and adjuster, this being slidably mounted in an especially constructed cap for the chlorophyll fluid containing bottle.

Another object of the invention is to provide a centrally apertured cap, the central aperture of which serves as a return opening for liquid which drains off of the wick, said opening also serving to accommodate a head on the wick adaptor, and said head serving as a closing valve for the aperture.

Other objects and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and the accompanying illustrative drawings.

In the drawings, wherein like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the views:

Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view, showing a bottle or equivalent container, cover, wick and adapter, all as constructed in accordance with my invention.

marginal surface H, which assists in trapping moisture and in causing same to gravitate back into the bottle by way ,of said opening Ill. The lid or cover is also provided with an eccentric circular hole l2, to accommodate the correspondingly-shaped and situated stem-portion l3 of the adapter device M. The latter is of any appropriate material and the inner end of the stem is bevelled or cut off as at I 5. The laterally-directed outer end of the stem is fashioned into a head l6, having a frusto-conical portion l1, providing a valve. This valve is adapted to seat in the seating surface II, when the valve is closed. The wick, which is of any suitable type,

' is denoted by the numeral 18 and has its major portion situated in the liquid (not shown) in the bottle, the upper or outer end of the wick being attached to the mouth projection IT. The opening I2 is such that it coordinates with the friction surface of the neck 1, and thus the stem l3 rides in frictional contact with this surface. It is possible, therefore, to adjust the adapter to any degree desired, making it possible to extend the wick or retract same with ease and finesse.

It will be clear that in carrying out the principles of the present invention, I have evolved and produced a simple, practical and highly efficient device, in which all of the parts have been carefully chosen and in which they proportionately serve their purposes in achieving the desired ends. The use of a slidable adapter of L-shaped form, and employing same as a projectile and retractile holder for a wick is believed to be novel. The idea of mounting a slidable adapter in a cover or lid for a bottle, and forming an offset aperture in the lid and using the neck of I the bottle as a friction retention surface for a part of the adapter, is believed to be new.

The idea of a lid with an aperture in the center, forming a return hole for drainage, the slidable passage of the wick through this hole, and the friction-held adapter wherein the head of the adapter serves as a finger-grip and also as a valve element and seats in the hole, is novel.

Although the picture may vary in different sections of the country, it has come to my attention that there are several kitchen and bathroom deodorant bottles on the market which fall in the so-called Air Wick category. Generally, the wick is doubled upon itself and fastened to a projectile and retractile wire hail, the limbs of which serve to hold the wick in retracted and variable projected positions. The insert carrying the wick is usually covered up with a screw cap. Thus, the cap has to be removed and the wick grasped and pulled out for use. The objections attending these constructions are well known and many object to the idea of having to catch hold of the wet and soggy wick when pullingit out of the. bottle or pushing it back in the bottle as the case may be. The cap gets lost and misplaced and there are numerous objections which need not be enumerated. By contrast, the wick equipped closure herein shown and described is possessed of facilities, refinements and betterments all contributing to the provision of a far more satisfactory wick-type bottle closure.

A careful consideration of the foregoing description in conjunction with the invention as illustrated in the drawings will enable the reader toobtain a clear understanding and impression of the alleged features of merit and novelty sufficient to clarify the construction of the invention as hereinafter claimed.

Minor changes in shape, size, materials and rearrangement of parts may be resorted to in actual practice so long as no departure is made from the invention as claimed.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A portable domestic-type deodorizer for room use comprising a liquid-storing moisturesupplying jar open at its upper end, a cover mounted on said open upper end, said cover bei provided with a centrally arranged, substan* tially conical opening, a circular closure provided on its under side with a conical valve adapted to fit in said opening, an elongated wick attached at its upper end to said valve and having its lower end extending into said jar by way of said opening and coiled in the liquid in the jar, said wick being adapted to be drawn upwardly and outwardly through the opening to the desired elevation to allow moisture, picked up by capillary attraction, to escape into the surrounding room air, and a rigid depending stem eccentrically attached to the marginal edge portion of the closure and depending at right angles therefrom, said cover having an eccentric opening through which said stem is slidably operable.

2. A portable domestic-type deodorizer for room use comprising a bottle open at its upper end, a cover mounted on said open upper end, said cover being provided with a centrally arranged, substantially conical opening, a circular closure provided on its under side with a conical valve adapted to fit in said opening, an elongated wick attached at its upper end to said valve and having its lower end extending into said bottle by way of said opening and coiled in the liquid in the bottle, said wick being adapted to be drawn upwardly and outwardly through the opening to the desired elevation to allow moisture, picked up by capillary attraction, to escape into the surrounding roomair, and a rigid depending stem eccentrically attached'to the marginal edge portion of the closure and depending at right angles therefrom, said GONG! having an eccentric opening through which said stem is slidably operable, said eccentric opening being close to the portion of the jar carrying said cover and said stem being in rubbing frictional contact with a surface of said bottle to assist in maintaining the wick in the position to which it is adjusted by the user.

3. A closure for a chlorophyll containing bottle comprising a cap having a central openingof conical form and also having an eccentric opening, a disk-like closure for said opening movable toward and from the opening and having a conical valve portion adapted to fit snugly in said opening when the disk closure is in closed posi-' tion, a rigid eccentric stem attached to the peripheral portion of said disk closure and frictionally slidable through the eccentric opening in said cap, and a wick, said wick being attached at one end to said conical valve element and the opposite end of the wick extending through the conical opening in the manner and for the purposes described.

DRAGIE P. GOSI-IEFF.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

Eicove et a1 May 25, 1948 

